Quick li'l coloured zombie gryph rampant, inspired somewhat by heraldic beasties of olde. Unlike them, however, this one is festively spotted. WITH ROT.

For some reason this LITTLE thing (I think about 4" x 6") took several weeks to complete. I guess I just got bored with it.

I love Carolina wrens, especially after having the treat of five little wren chicks in my yard! They were SO cute and I still miss them. Especially Fatty, who was most likely the firstborn and the biggest and cutest and nicest of the clutch.

Do you know how great it is seeing little eggs in a nest for weeks and then one day having little fuzzy heads suddenly pop up and open their mouths at you? I love baby birds so much.

And I'm sorry for the recent dearth of updates.. I am in a little bit of a slump.

Who told them that it's a good name for a CLOTHING store of all places? Yeah, maybe their products ARE made by Honduran and Guatemalan child sweatshop laborers (WARNING: UNFOUNDED CLAIM!!!), but for their sake they shouldn't be so blatant about it.

I forgot her ear-hair! Oh well. Yes, I'm way too lazy to be bothered with backgrounds for quick cartoons.

This is done as it'll ever be, I think. I'm kind of happy with the results. A little.

It's for my "about me" page on Furbid.

http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/aboutview.pl?user=avelacuna

This is my first time drawing a seal or other pinniped thing in a long, long time. I just love how they have those vestiges of digits and claws on their flippers!

New character! Marsillach, pronounced either 'mar-see'-ock' or 'mar-sill'-ock', whichever suits your fancy. Named after Cristina Marsillach, you ask? No, not really. I just thought it was a nice name for a male gryphon.

image and character © avelacuna/nn

Young amphiptere whose wings have not yet grown to support it. It looks like some sort of... alien. Very shaky inking.

Basic inking for my "about me" page on Furbid. I'm going to experiment in adding a few more values to this than just the solid black and white.

In related news, I'm on Furbid now! Go to http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/aboutview.pl?user=avelacuna to examine my wares!

This is pretty old. Slightly more recent than the first "citcpencil" image, but old nontheless.

Citlalicue © avelacuna

For me to be satisfied with a movie nowadays, it needs a whole bunch of "kill kill kill". CLASSY SOPHISTICATED kill kill kill. None of that teen slasher tripe.

The only reason I'm uploading this is because i like the face. The rest I hate.

Just a very quick little badge of my character Merle. Terrible scan. I love doing badges, and normally they come out infinitely nicer than this one, but... this one was just a quickie for myself, so I'm allowed to slack, hmm?

By the way, badge price is now available in my commission page, so if you're interested...

You know that Coke commercial from around the holidays with penguins at some concert and some polar bears looking in from a snow drift? Cute? NO.

What you DON'T see there are the years of enmity between penguins and polar bears. No bears were allowed at the concert. The sneaky bears watched the event from a secure area, but the cub blew their cover when it slipped. Penguins lynch polar bears at the drop of a hat, so it was pretty much a death sentence for them. The penguin adults were about to get their nooses and pitchforks out, but a nonbigoted penguin chick came and presented the cub with an offering of Coke. This wowed both the penguins and the polar bears, who had come down to fetch the cub, so the formers, in the Christmas spirit, decided not to lynch the bears. Until Boxing Day.

Why, it is a Verveine Slug! Only the most beautiful of slug varieties!

Verveine, regardless of the species, © avelacuna

Velo's commission picture! Himself and Resin all huggy. Unfortunately the scan does it NO justice... it looks so ugly here! The real-life piece is very smooth and nice looking, in my opinion. I'm going to miss it.

Prismas, Microns, and Unis on vellum.

Characters © their respective creators
image © avelacuna

I had drawn this as an extra for Velo to go with his commission when he said that he would send a CD along with his payment. I was expecting 10 songs. What I got was nearly 95 times that amount. Nope, no typo or misreading on anyone's part. Almost 950 tracks of industrial, EBM, futurepop, noise and electronic goodness. Hooooly cripes.

Obviously I was damned thankful so I drew three other extras, would have done more, but I wanted to send it by Dec. 31...

Velo © JH
art © ave

One of the extras for Velo. This is his girlfriend's character, Resin the dire wolf.

One of the extras for Velo 'cause he's nice.

One of four extras for Velo. My hand was shaking like a mad bastard when I drew this... I don't know why.

Behold- my most disproportionate character: Sangria, the demonic Alaskan malamute. She has a massive head and neck and atrophied hindquarters. She's capable of possession. Wooo. I haven't drawn her in ages, but I like her a lot.

I'm quite pleased with this, although the scan unfortunately does not do it any justice whatsoever. It's much smoother and nicer looking in real life.

Just a tropical-looking gryphlet, Prismas on Mi-Teintes paper. God I love that paper.

image copyright © 2006 avelacuna

This is pretty goddamned disgusting, eh? That was my aim. One sees so many of those "charming Victorian" frog anthros: where are all the sloppy ones with positively prodigious pendulous pectorals? Hahaha.

I drew this in math today but was too ashamed to ink it there. It IS embarrassing.

It is said that once a border collie tastes the blood of its charges, it can no longer be trusted. This border were is surely beyond redemption.

Another oldie. Willow being excitable. I think she looks more like a Samoyed here than usual...eh. She ain't no Sammy.

Willow and image © 2006 avelacuna.

Umbrella cockatoo from... I don't know when. A few months ago. The crest is omitted due to its pure unadulterated fugliness.

This would be a really cute vector logo for something, I think. Zombie gryph in messy pen.

Another failed attempt at a were-body, with a much looser, sloppier ink style.

OLD! Citlalicue the Arbeiter. Colours got all screwed up.

I thought Vetiver was a cute name for a green corgi... so here one is. Wow is the head big.

Willow on some icky school paper... looks a lot better in real life. Big paws.

"A Fairytale About Slavery" is a really pretty song by Miranda Sex Garden. Katharine Blake has quite a nice voice. That thing on Verveine's leg is supposed to be some sort of a snare.

Lyrics © Miranda Sex Garden/ whatever label the album Fairytales of Slavery is on..